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Chelsea team to face Southampton: Morata & Cahill dropped as Hazard returns in FA Cup semi-final

By Oliver Harbord Chelsea Correspondent 07:50, 21 APR 2018 The FA Cup is the final chance for Chelsea to win some silverware this season and at least put a bit of gloss on what has been a slightly disappointing season across the other competitions. With the top four Premier League spots maybe out of reach for the rest of the campaign, winning the FA Cup could be the first time Antonio Conte wins a cup competition as a manager and so he will go to the full strength of his squad. Marcos Alonso is still suspended, but it is likely that Emerson Palmieri will not start the match and instead you could see Davide Zappacosta start the game in the left wing-back role. Up front might be where the biggest decision will come, and Olivier Giroud's performances might warrant a start for the Frenchman over Alvaro Morata, with Eden Hazard and Willian likely to come back into the side after being rested against Burnley on Thursday night. At the same time, Cesc Fabregas wil

IPL 2018: MS Dhoni reads the game incredibly well, Shane Watson praises CSK skipper

Shane Watson and MS Dhoni , AFP It seems MS Dhoni has acquired another fan. His Chennai Super Kings teammate Shane Watson was all praise for his skipper after CSK registered a 64-run victory over Rajasthan Royals on Friday. Watson's century helped his side get to a big total in their first game at their new home in Pune. Watson smashed a 57-ball 106. Watson praised Dhoni after the match, “MS reads the game incredibly well. His feel for the game is as good as anyone that’s ever played the game. His intuition on the ground is incredible…" "Our bowling plan comes in from what MS feels and his tactics on the ground. It’s a pretty powerful combination,” Watson said at the post-match press conference. Watson also admitted that he is learning a lot from the former India captain. “I’ve always watched him from far away. He’s so incredibly calm… Well he looks calm, maybe not so on the inside always but he looks so calm. Also, how he tactically reads the game, h

Don’t send Nigerian refugees back to Boko Haram violence, UN urges Cameroon

Critics inciting youths against Buhari –Lai Mohammed

Published April 21, 2018 Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu Buhari has passion and concern for Nigerian youths, as opposed to what the critics of his administration want the people to believe. He said this on Friday in Abeokuta, Ogun State while fielding questions from journalists at the ongoing African Drum Festival. The minister dismissed reports quoting President Buhari as describing all Nigerian youths as lazy and always waiting for free things. He noted that the current administration had invested in the youth with some of its programmes. He said, “Some people have just made it their full-time job these days to scrutinise and twist whatever the President says out of context. “I wonder how a government that has employed 100,000 unemployed graduates and also feeds about 7.5 million people daily could be tagged anti-youth. “Our social investment prog

Bandits kill 30 in fresh attacks in Zamfara

File Photo: The victims of Zamfara attack by gunmen in February. Fresh killings reported in two LGAs Bandits have again killed about 30 people in Kabaro and Danmani villages in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A witness, Mr Shuaibu Kabaro, in Maru said that the suspected gunmen attacked the two communities and the incident was immediately reported to the security agents. He said three of the bandits were arrested by security agents following the prompt report of the incident to the security personnel. Shuaibu said, the gunmen in turn went and mobilized more gangs and returned in multitudes to carry out the attack which left about 30 dead and many others injured in the two communities. The Maru Local Government Council Chairman, Alhaji Salisu Dangulbi and the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Mohammed Shehu both confirmed the killings. According to them, many of the villagers deserted their homes for fear of further attacks wh

One woman's fight: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala memoir offers guide to fighting corruption

By Raj Kumar // 19 April 2018 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former finance minister of Nigeria. Photo by: Overseas Development Institute / CC BY-NC WASHINGTON — Picture this: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the time serving her second stint as Nigeria’s finance minister and sitting before President Goodluck Jonathan in his stately office, had just poured cold water on a foreign investment deal that sounded promising but could lead to Nigeria holding the bag — and around $2 billion in debt — if the project didn’t work out. As she reflects on that moment from 2014 in her just-released memoir “Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines,” the prominent global development leader recalls, “The presidential adviser had the 'I told you so' look, as though he was thinking, once you get this woman involved, then this won’t work." The glittering facts about Okonjo-Iweala are widely known in global circles. She is a former managing director of the World

Kanye West announces two new albums, including Kid Cudi collaboration

Kanye West has confirmed he's releasing two new albums. In a series of tweets, the rapper said the first would be a solo record with "7 songs," which is due out on 1 June. The second will come out a week later on 8 June and is a collaboration with Kid Cudi, called Kids See Ghosts. These will be Kanye's first new albums since 2016's Life of Pablo and comes just a day after he announced he was writing a book on philosophy. It turned out that book will actually take the form of tweets. "Oh by the way this is my book that I'm writing in real time," he wrote on Twitter. "No publisher or publicist will tell me what to put where or how many pages to write." Kanye had taken an 11-month hiatus from Twitter, but returned this week with widely-shared tweets he says are the result of "an innate need to be expressive". There was no mention of new music (although he's expected to release an album this year) - but we